Liam Corley

Liam Corley

Professor, English and Modern Languages, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

Education

  • Ph.D. in English, University of California, Riverside, 2004
  • M.A. in English, San Jose State University, 1999
  • B.A. in Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 1992

Research and Teaching Interests

Veterans in American Literature, 18th/19th C. American Literature, American Poetry, Science Fiction, Literature and Religion.

Recent Publications

  • “Teaching as Leading: Valuing the Veteran in All of Us.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 16.3 (October 2016): 539-549.
  • Bayard Taylor: Determined Dreamer of America’s Rise, 1825-1878. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2014.
  • “‘Brave Words’: Rehabilitating the Veteran-Writer.” College English 74.4 (March 2012): 351-65.
  • “Achilles Among the Maidens.” War, Literature, and the Arts 24.1 (2012): 216-24.

Courses

  • ENG 2300: American Literature to 1865
  • ENG 2700: The Bible as Literature
  • ENG 3000: Introduction to Literary Studies
  • ENG 3141: Creative Writing: Fiction
  • ENG 3143: Creative Writing: Poetry
  • ENG 4300: Early American Literature
  • ENG 4310: 19th C. American Literature
  • ENG 4311: American Poetic Tradition
  • ENG 4610: Senior Symposium
  • ENG 5000: Intro to Graduate Research
  • ENG 5370: Early American Literature
  • ENG 5361: 19th C. American Literature